RELEASE-NOTES-1.30

   1 == MediaWiki 1.30 ==
   2
   3 THIS IS NOT A RELEASE YET
   4
   5 MediaWiki 1.30 is an alpha-quality branch and is not recommended for use in
   6 production.
   7
   8 === MySQL version requirement in 1.30 ===
   9 As of 1.30, MediaWiki now requires MySQL 5.5.8 or higher (see Compatibility
  10 section).
  11
  12 === Configuration changes in 1.30 ===
  13 * The "C.UTF-8" locale should be used for $wgShellLocale, if available, to avoid
  14   unexpected behavior when code uses locale-sensitive string comparisons. For
  15   example, the Scribunto extension considers "bar" < "Foo" in most locales
  16   since it ignores case.
  17 * $wgShellLocale now affects LC_ALL rather than only LC_CTYPE. See
  18   documentation of $wgShellLocale for details.
  19 * $wgShellLocale is now applied for all requests. wfInitShellLocale() is
  20   deprecated and a no-op, as it is no longer needed.
  21 * $wgJobClasses may now specify callback functions as an alternative to plain
  22   class names. This is intended for extensions that want control over the
  23   instantiation of their jobs, to allow for proper dependency injection.
  24 * $wgResourceModules may now specify callback functions as an alternative
  25   to plain class names, using the 'factory' key in the module description
  26   array. This allows dependency injection to be used for ResourceLoader modules.
  27 * $wgExceptionHooks has been removed.
  28 * (T45547) $wgUsePigLatinVariant added (off by default).
  29
  30 === New features in 1.30 ===
  31 * (T37247) Output from Parser::parse() will now be wrapped in a div with
  32   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  33   ParserOptions::setWrapOutputClass().
  34 * Added 'ChangeTagsAllowedAdd' hook, enabling extensions to allow software-
  35   specific tags to be added by users.
  36 * Added a 'ParserOptionsRegister' hook to allow extensions to register
  37   additional parser options.
  38 * (T45547) Included Pig Latin, a language game in English, as a
  39   LanguageConverter variant.  This allows English-speaking developers
  40   to develop and test LanguageConverter more easily.  Pig Latin can be
  41   enabled by setting $wgUsePigLatinVariant to true.
  42 * Added RecentChangesPurgeRows hook to allow extensions to purge data that
  43   depends on the recentchanges table.
  44 * Added JS config values wgDiffOldId/wgDiffNewId to the output of diff pages.
  45
  46 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
  47
  48 * Support for kbp (Kabɩyɛ / Kabiyè) was added.
  49 * Support for skr (Saraiki, سرائیکی) was added.
  50
  51 === External library changes in 1.30 ===
  52
  53 ==== Upgraded external libraries ====
  54 * mediawiki/mediawiki-codesniffer updated to 0.8.1.
  55 * wikimedia/composer-merge-plugin updated to 1.4.1.
  56
  57 ==== New external libraries ====
  58 * The class \TestingAccessWrapper has been moved to the external library
  59   wikimedia/testing-access-wrapper and renamed \Wikimedia\TestingAccessWrapper.
  60
  61 ==== Removed and replaced external libraries ====
  62 * …
  63
  64 === Bug fixes in 1.30 ===
  65 * (T151633) Ordered list items use now Devanagari digits in Nepalese
  66   (thanks to Sfic)
  67
  68 === Action API changes in 1.30 ===
  69 * (T37247) action=parse output will be wrapped in a div with
  70   class="mw-parser-output" by default. This may be changed or disabled using
  71   the new 'wrapoutputclass' parameter.
  72 * When errorformat is not 'bc', abort reasons from action=login will be
  73   formatted as specified by the error formatter parameters.
  74 * action=compare can now handle arbitrary text, deleted revisions, and
  75   returning users and edit comments.
  76 * (T164106) The 'rvdifftotext', 'rvdifftotextpst', 'rvdiffto',
  77   'rvexpandtemplates', 'rvgeneratexml', 'rvparse', and 'rvprop=parsetree'
  78   parameters to prop=revisions are deprecated, as are the similarly named
  79   parameters to prop=deletedrevisions, list=allrevisions, and
  80   list=alldeletedrevisions. Use action=compare, action=parse, or
  81   action=expandtemplates instead.
  82
  83 === Action API internal changes in 1.30 ===
  84 * ApiBase::getDescriptionMessage() and the "apihelp-*-description" messages are
  85   deprecated. The existing message should be split between "apihelp-*-summary"
  86   and "apihelp-*-extended-description".
  87 * (T123931) Individual values of multi-valued parameters can now be marked as
  88   deprecated.
  89
  90 === Languages updated in 1.30 ===
  91 MediaWiki supports over 350 languages. Many localisations are updated
  92 regularly. Below only new and removed languages are listed, as well as
  93 changes to languages because of Phabricator reports.
  94
  95 * …
  96
  97 ==== Pig Latin added ====
  98 * (T45547) Added Pig Latin, a made-up English variant (en-x-piglatin),
  99   for easier variant development and testing. Disabled by default. It can be
 100   enabled by setting $wgUsePigLatinVariant to true.
 101
 102 === Other changes in 1.30 ===
 103 * The use of an associative array for $wgProxyList, where the IP address is in
 104   the key instead of the value, is deprecated (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' => 'value' ]).
 105   Please convert these arrays to indexed/sequential ones (e.g. [ '127.0.0.1' ]).
 106 * mw.user.bucket (deprecated in 1.23) was removed.
 107 * LoadBalancer::getServerInfo() and LoadBalancer::setServerInfo() are
 108   deprecated. There are no known callers.
 109 * File::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
 110 * MediaHandler::getStreamHeaders() was deprecated.
 111 * Title::canTalk() was deprecated. The new Title::canHaveTalkPage() should be
 112   used instead.
 113 * MWNamespace::canTalk() was deprecated. The new MWNamespace::hasTalkNamespace()
 114   should be used instead.
 115 * The ExtractThumbParameters hook (deprecated in 1.21) was removed.
 116 * The OutputPage::addParserOutputNoText and ::getHeadLinks methods (both
 117   deprecated in 1.24) were removed.
 118 * wfMemcKey() and wfGlobalCacheKey() were deprecated. BagOStuff::makeKey() and
 119   BagOStuff::makeGlobalKey() should be used instead.
 120 * (T146304) Preprocessor handling of LanguageConverter markup has been improved.
 121   As a result of the new uniform handling, '-{' may need to be escaped
 122   (for example, as '-<nowiki/>{') where it occurs inside template arguments
 123   or wikilinks.
 124 * (T163966) Page moves are now counted as edits for the purposes of
 125   autopromotion, i.e., they increment the user_editcount field in the database.
 126 * Two new hooks, LogEventsListLineEnding and NewPagesLineEnding, were added for
 127   manipulating Special:Log and Special:NewPages lines.
 128 * The OldChangesListRecentChangesLine, EnhancedChangesListModifyLineData,
 129   PageHistoryLineEnding, ContributionsLineEnding and DeletedContributionsLineEnding
 130   hooks have an additional parameter, for manipulating HTML data attributes of
 131   RC/history lines. EnhancedChangesListModifyBlockLineData can do that via the
 132   $data['attribs'] subarray.
 133 * (T130632) The OutputPage::enableTOC() method was removed.
 134 * WikiPage::getParserOutput() will now throw an exception if passed
 135   ParserOptions that would pollute the parser cache. Callers should use
 136   WikiPage::makeParserOptions() to create the ParserOptions object and only
 137   change options that affect the parser cache key.
 138 * Article::viewRedirect() is deprecated.
 139 * DeprecatedGlobal no longer supports passing in a direct value, it requires a
 140   callable factory function or a class name.
 141 * The $parserMemc global, wfGetParserCacheStorage(), and ParserCache::singleton()
 142   are all deprecated. The main ParserCache instance should be obtained from
 143   MediaWikiServices instead. Access to the underlying BagOStuff is possible
 144   through the new ParserCache::getCacheStorage() method.
 145 * .mw-ui-constructive CSS class (deprecated in 1.27) was removed.
 146
 147 == Compatibility ==
 148 MediaWiki 1.30 requires PHP 5.5.9 or later. There is experimental support for
 149 HHVM 3.6.5 or later.
 150
 151 MySQL/MariaDB is the recommended DBMS. PostgreSQL or SQLite can also be used,
 152 but support for them is somewhat less mature. There is experimental support for
 153 Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.
 154
 155 The supported versions are:
 156
 157 * MySQL 5.5.8 or later
 158 * PostgreSQL 8.3 or later
 159 * SQLite 3.3.7 or later
 160 * Oracle 9.0.1 or later
 161 * Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (9.00.1399)
 162
 163 == Upgrading ==
 164 1.30 has several database changes since 1.29, and will not work without schema
 165 updates. Note that due to changes to some very large tables like the revision
 166 table, the schema update may take a long time (minutes on a medium sized site,
 167 many hours on a large site).
 168
 169 Don't forget to always back up your database before upgrading!
 170
 171 See the file UPGRADE for more detailed upgrade instructions, including
 172 important information when upgrading from versions prior to 1.11.
 173
 174 For notes on 1.29.x and older releases, see HISTORY.
 175
 176 == Online documentation ==
 177 Documentation for both end-users and site administrators is available on
 178 MediaWiki.org, and is covered under the GNU Free Documentation License (except
 179 for pages that explicitly state that their contents are in the public domain):
 180
 181        https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Documentation
 182
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 194
 195 == IRC help ==
 196 There's usually someone online in #mediawiki on irc.freenode.net.